Set-up block for sticker heads



Feb. 27, 1923, 1 1,446,883

A. F. CURTIS 4 SET-UP BLOCK FOR STICKER HEADS Filed June 20, 1.921

s I g Patented Feb. 27, 1923.

1,446,883 UNETED stares ear enrjorrice.

ARTHTTR F. CURTIS, 0T3 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SET-UP BLOCK FOR' STICKERHEADS.

Application vfiled .Tune 20, 1921. Serial No. 479,154.

T 0 all whom itmag concern V Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. CURTIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los. Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful improvements in Set-Up Blocks for Sticker Heads, is a specification. It is the object of this invention to provide means whereby the blades of a sticker may be properly adjusted upon a sticker head, so that when the sticker head is of which the following mounted in a planing machine it will func tion to produce work of a desired conformation.

More specifically the invention provides a set up block which includes means for clamping a sample of the work which is to be reproduced, and also a removable mandrel adapted toreceive the sticker head. The mandrel and clamp are in the same relative position as the shaft of the planing machine which carries thesticker head'and the support for the work, and as a consequence when the blades are adjusted upon the sticker head mountedupon-the mandrel of the set up block so as to properly engage the work to here-produced and which is clamped in the set up block, the blades constructed in accordance with the inven of the sticker head will be properly adjusted for subsequent use of the sticker head in the planing machine.

The invention will be readily understood from the following description of the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a set up block tion.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Figs. 3 and at are longitudinal sections on the lines 33 and 4-4 of Fig. 1.

5 is a perspective view of the clamping member of the set up block.

The apparatus includes a casing 1 forming guideways 2 at the ends thereof and also forming a trough 3 at the front of said casing. The walls of the casing at the ends of this trough form bearings 4 so that a mandrel 5 may be removably supported above said trough.

The mandrel 5 is constructed similar to receive a sticker head, and the usual sticker head 6 of such a machine is adapted tobe bearings 4:" for the mandrel with relation mounted upon the mandrel for supporting saidsticker head-upon the'set up block.

The sticker head includes the usual blades 7 whichare adjustably positioned by means of bolts '8 received in slots 9 of the blades, and the. cutting edges 10 of'the blades con.-

form to the contour of the molding-which v is to be formed. 1' I A clamp for a sample of the W0ikwhich is to be reproduced, is ,mounted iniguideways 2- for adjustment toward'andaway from mandrel 5 and the sticker head car:

ried thereby. This clamp includes side sup ports '13 movable'in guideways 2, and a depending apron .14 which carries a fixed clamping jaw 15 and an adjustable clamping jaw 16, so that the sample of the work to be reproduced, as shown at 18, may be clamped betweensaid jaws. l

Jaw 16 may. be adjusted by having the supporting bolts 20 thereof received through elongated: slots21 in apron l4, and having said boltsconnected to blocks 22 which are adjusted up and down by means of screw rods 23 threaded through the clamp and actuated by handv wheels 24. 'The clamp may be moved back and forth toward and away from mandrel 5by connecting a screw .rod 26to apron 14 and threading thGYSBJIIB throi'igh casing 1 with a hand-wheel 27 fixed upon saidscrew rod.

Illuminating means shown as an incandescent lamp 530 is preferably provided in trough 3 beneath mandrel 5, and in operation it. will be understood that with a model 18 supported in the clamp, and a sticker head 6 mounted upon mandrel 5 which is supported in its bearings 4, the respective cutter blades 7 are adjusted upon the sticker head so as to conform exactly tothe contour of the model. The lamp 30 provides light from below for the operator to readily ad just the cutting edges of the blades and the surface of the model.

It will be understood that the parts'are so related that when the blades of a sticker head are properly positioned with relation to the model in the set up block, said blades will be similarly properly positioned with relation'to the work when the sticker head is substantially transferred to the planing machine.

The desired definite relation between the sticker head upon mandrel '5 and the model secured in the clamp of the set up block, is accomplished by properly positioning the to e lam a d also. by P vidin end abutment-plates 35 beyond jaws 15416 of the clamp in order that the model 1 8 may be clamped in th jaws while abutting against one of said end plates, in order to obtain the desired relative lateral position of the parts.

The apparatus, as thus described, provides extremely simple means for properly positio ning :the blades of a sticker head, the work being accomplished in a set up block where there is sufficient room'to readily ma- --nipu=l ate the blades relative to the sticker head, and by the arrangement of the parts oftheiapparatus in a definite fixed relation, the proper adjustment of the cutter blades,

when the stirkerhead is-mounted in the set up block, will cause said cutter blades to also be properly positioned when the sticker head is subsequently transferred to the planing machine.

Various cilianlgesmay be made without departing from the spirit of the invention as claimed;

\Vhat is" claimed is:

h A set-up apparatus for adjusting the position of cutters on a sticker head, comprising abox-li ke casing having a back and en'd'sand an ope-n front, a frame slidably mounte dl upon the end walls and having a pendant front apron between the end walls, means on. the apron to clamp a pattern block, and a removablg head mandrel'mounted in the end wallsand toward which the apron: is ,sh'if table toset the pattern.

2. A set-up apparatus for adjusting the position of; cutters on a sticker head, comprising a box-like casinghaving a back and ends and an open front, a frame slidably position of cutters on a sticker head, comprising a box-like casing having a back and ends and an open front, aframe slidab-ly mounted upon the end walls and having a pendant front apron between the end walls, means on the apron-toelamp a pattern block,

a removable, head mandrel mounted in the end walls and toward which the apron is shi ftable to set the pattern, the clampin cluding an upper adjustable jaw, and means extending to the top o-f'the frame for adjusting the jaw.

a. A set-up apparatus for adjusting the position of cutters on a sticker head, comprising. a box-like casing having; a back and ends and an open front, a frame slidabl y mounted upon the end walls and having a pendant front apron between the end walls, meansonthe apron'to clamp apatternblocl'r, and a removable, head mandrel mounted in the end walls and toward which the apron is sliii table to set the pattern, the tops offthe end wall forming half bearings with open seats intowhich the said mandrel is readily applied and therefrom removed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ARTHUR F1 CU TIS. 

